Obituaries

Stephen Mclaughlin

Stephen Mclaughlin

Nov 22, 2013

Stephen Webster McLaughlin, 82 year old Grove, OK, resident passed away Friday, November 22, 2013. Stephen was born May 10, 1931 to Helen Lucille Laffoon McLaughlin in Tulsa, OK. He married Betty (Cox) on August 24, 1956 in Tulsa, OK. Stephen served in the United States Air Force in Korea. He worked for the Union Petroleum Corporation as a vice...

Gladis Leaf

Gladis Leaf

Nov 22, 2013

Gladis Martha (Freeman) Leaf, 66 year old resident of rural Afton (Duck Creek), died Friday, November 22, 2013 at the Landmark Hospital in Joplin. She was born April 3, 1947 in Vohenstrauss, Germany to S. D. and Margrit Freeman. Gladis was married to Mickey Leaf in 1974 in Vinita. She was retired from Cinch Connectors after 23 years with them....

Eddie Inman

Eddie Inman

Nov 22, 2013

Eddie Ray Inman, 70 year old Ketchum resident, died Friday, November 22, 2013 at his home. He was born on September 27, 1943 in Delaware, Oklahoma to Jim and Virginia (Pearsall) Inman. Eddie was raised in the Delaware and Nowata area, then moved to Ketchum several years ago. His wife Bonnie Inman preceded him in death in 2004. In September...

Jake Olsen-Correa

Jake Olsen-Correa

Nov 21, 2013

Jake Olsen-Correa, 23, of Grove, OK, passed away on November 21, 2013, after a tragic car accident on the cliff above Grand Lake's Blue Bluff Harbor near Grove, OK. He was born in Visalia, CA, on August 9, 1990, and in 2005 relocated with his family to Grove, a community he proudly called home. A graduate of Grove High School...

Monieca Mcghee

Monieca Mcghee

Nov 19, 2013

Monieca "Moni" Dawn McGhee, passed away at the Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at the age of 43. Moni was born February 4, 1970 in Gravette, AR, the daughter of Dink West and June Williams. Moni attended elementary school in Grove before moving to Jay where she graduated high school in 1988. She then attended...

Cheryl Guyaux

Cheryl Guyaux

Nov 18, 2013

Cheryl Ann (Patrick) Guyaux The world lost a loving mom, wife and friend when Cheryl Ann (Patrick) Guyaux passed away suddenly on Monday, November 18th, 2013 at the age of 69. She was born on January 24, 1944 to Mary (Jordan) Patrick and Marion Patrick in Fairland, Oklahoma. A long-time employee of Grand River Dam Authority, Cheryl retired to life...

Donald Blevins

Donald Blevins

Nov 17, 2013

Donald Blevins, passed away in Jay, OK on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the age of 55. Donald was born May 16, 1958 in Tulsa, OK, the son of Silas Blevins and Joann (Rose) Blevins. Donald attended school in Jay, OK. After his schooling, Donald worked for his father in the timber cutting business in Colorado until moving back to...

Tammy Crawford

Tammy Crawford

Nov 16, 2013

Tammy Crawford, Grove resident died Saturday morning, November 16, 2013 at the age of 56 years. She was born on October 26, 1957 in San Jose, CA to her parents, the late Therlo Thomas George and Bessie (Watkins) Owen. She graduated College High School in Bartlesville, OK. She married the love of her life, Greg Crawford on July 30, 1976...

Shirley Landrum

Shirley Landrum

Nov 16, 2013

Shirley Elizabeth (Coleman) Landrum passed away early Saturday, November 16, 2013. She was born June 11, 1926 at Choctaw, Oklahoma to John Arthur Coleman and Ola Mae (Cole) Coleman. Shirley's family moved to Okmulgee, OK when she was 3 years old and she attended Okmulgee Roosevelt Elementary School and graduated from Okmulgee High School in 1944 in the top 10%...

Letha Fisher

Letha Fisher

Nov 15, 2013

On Friday November 15, 2013 at 5:17 PM as the sun was setting, we lost our beloved PRINCESS Letha. Letha Joan (Hall) Fisher, known to her friends as Princess, left this world and her earthly body for her heavenly home. She succumbed to massive brain trauma and metastasis breast cancer to her brain. Her courageous fight with the evil of...

Ralph Powell

Ralph Powell

Nov 14, 2013

Ralph LaMoine Powell, 81, of Grove, Oklahoma passed away at 5:45 a.m. on the morning of November 14, 2013 at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Ralph was born July 22, 1932 in Welch, Oklahoma, son of Cecil Powell and Pauline (Fogle) Powell. A 1951 graduate of Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Ralph went on to study at Oklahoma State...

Pauline Price

Pauline Price

Nov 12, 2013

Pauline Price, 87, of Nowata, passed away Tuesday, November 12, 2013, at home. She was born October 3, 1926, in Clayton, New Mexico, the daughter of Charles Dugger and Leona Harrison. Pauline attended Nowata schools. On July 23, 1979, she was united in marriage to Virgil Price in Miami, Oklahoma. Pauline worked at the Rexall, Hickory House, Hayes House, City...

Bobbie Fair

Bobbie Fair

Nov 12, 2013

Bobbie Harmon Fair, 79 year old Vinita resident, passed away at his home on November 12, 2013. He was born on April 1, 1934 in Centralia to Clint and Muril (Wagnon) Fair. He married June Jones on March 9, 1957 at the United Methodist Church in Vinita. Bobbie was a member of the Baptist faith. He retired from Phillips Petroleum...

Barbara Parsons

Barbara Parsons

Nov 12, 2013

Barbara G. Beans was born on December 23, 1919 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Yandell S. Beans and Marjorie Gail (Wilkinson) Beans. She was raised in Hiawatha, Kansas, where she received her early education, and was a graduate of the Hiawatha High School. She furthered her education by attending Highland Park Jr. College. On January 19, 1941,...

Melvin James

Melvin James

Nov 11, 2013

Melvin James was reunited with his loving wife of 62 years, Billie, on November 11, 2013. He was in his home and surrounded by his family as he peacefully entered his eternal life on his 90th birthday. Melvin was born in Miami, OK on November 11, 1923 to George Washington and Arizona James. He attended school in White Oak and...

Jim Rourke

Jim Rourke

Nov 11, 2013

Jim Annette (Warren) Rourke was born September 3, 1920 in Indianola, Mississippi to parents, Ida Bernice (Williams) Warren and George Lee Warren. One of six children, on September 17, 1940, she was married to Francis Robert Rourke of Beacon Falls, Connecticut at Greenwood, Mississippi. Jim graduated from Indianola High School in 1938 and went to work for Lewis Grocer Company...

John Granger

John Granger

Nov 10, 2013

John Mark Granger, 59, lifelong Bartlesville resident, passed away Sunday morning, November 10, 2013 at St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, OK. John was born May 27, 1954 at Bartlesville to Thomas Leonard Granger and Beverly Jane (Swank) Granger. He was a graduate of Bartlesville College High and attained Associate Degrees in Psychology and Child Psychology. He married Jennifer Zoe "Jenny"...

Dana Arnold

Dana Arnold

Nov 7, 2013

Memorial services for Dana Renee' Arnold are 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at Benjamin Funeral Service Chapel with Ben Killion officiating. Interment will follow at Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery. Online condolences may be left at www.honoringmemories.com. Memorial's in Dana's name may be sent to McCracken Arnold Foundation for Nowata High School Senior's Scholarships in care of Mike Dye at...

Theodore Robertson

Theodore Robertson

Nov 7, 2013

Theodore "Ted" Lane Robertson, Grove resident, died Thursday morning November 7, 2013 after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 69 years. Ted was born on March 3, 1944 in Gary, IN to Theodore C. and Lois Rachel (Harris) Robertson. Ted graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelors Degree in Education in 1965. While at college, Ted...

Levi Tanner

Levi Tanner

Nov 6, 2013

Levi "Ned" Tanner, passed away at his home in Jay, OK on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at the age of 64. Ned was born on March 25, 1949 in Eucha, OK, the son of the late Buck Tanner and Mary Jane (Buck) Tanner. Ned went to school in Eucha. After school he worked by cutting wood, mowing, painting houses, and...